This was my last clinic day before boards so hopefully i'm as good as i'm gonna get for the time being. I feel pretty comfortable with my instrumenting skills and effectively removing calculus. I only had class fives today though so that didn't give me much more practice for boards. I have an extremely hard patient, but I'm confident that I will somehow pull it off. I can't believe that they are already here. It's amazing to see how much I have learned and improved on over the past two years. I'm excited to get out into the real world and see what I can do with all the things i've learned.

Today was the dreaded LA mockboard. I was actually a lot more calm than I thought I would be. Overall, it went pretty well. I just needed to adjust one of my angles on the PSA a little bit but that was pretty much it. I've given quite a few injections so I'm feeling pretty good about the real thing. No more time to practice so all I can do at this point is cross my fingers and say lots and lots of prayers! I can't believe boards are already here! So completely beyond crazy! I can't even wait for them to be over! This afternoon patient my board patient came so that I could get a pano on her, clean a quad, and take one last look and the area that I'm going to clean. I sure hope she qualifies. Her calculus was a bugger to get off when I used her for one of my mockboards so I'm hoping that I've gotten a little better as a clinician. I'm glad I know how hard her calculus is though or I would be screwed. Please bless that the highlighter is nice to me!

My patient for the morning cancelled, but luckily KaDee scheduled a patient that she forgot about so she had an extra one for me. My patient ended up just being a class V so super easy. It's amazing to me how much faster cleanings go when you know how to use your explorer and can feel if calculus is there or not. It just boggles my mind that last year we were all spending two hours on 1Bs because we had no idea what calculus felt like and were basically just scraping away at nothing but tooth haha our poor friends and family! This afternoon I finished up my mockboard patient and also saw her fifteen year old son in the same appointment. Again, things went so much faster now that I know how to feel for calculus! Such a good feeling!